Day 50: Fake Stained Glass

I found this idea online... HERE.

The idea is to cover a window with tissue paper using washable glue.

Extremely simple, temporary, and great result.

Supplies:  Tissue paper and washable glue

Instructions:  Rip up a bunch of tissue paper, put glue on the window, put tissue on window. DONE

The light is hitting the left side of the window, that's why the colors appear different.

Here's the result from the site I copied:

Day 49: Sock Bun Curls - Yeah, It's A Girl Post

Hey Ladies, have you fried the shit out of your hair like I have? Do you want to wake up in the morning with a pretty flowing locks? Well let me introduce you to the sock bun. You've probably already seen a sock bun and in my personal opinion I think the bun itself is ugly and looks like a butthole on your head but eh... you could convince me it's a sexy ballerina thing, ala black swan, and I might buy it.

Butthole bun, Bagel bun, whatever blech.

1. Take a sock, cut off the toe.

2. Roll that shit up.

3. You need to do this with ALMOST dry hair. Don't do this with wet hair you'll get a bad result AND you don't want bottom of the hamper hair (moldy, gross). I think it's silly to buy a spray bottle just for water so I run my hands under water, flick them and then run the remaining water through my hair... depending on how dry my hair feels I may do this 1-3 X's.
4. Tip your head over and pull your hair into a top-of-the-head pony tail (here some people use a rubber band to hold their hair in place but I got a bad kink so I skip that).

5. Take the sock "scrunchy" slide it on like a normal hair tie.

6. Separate your pony tail into two sections

7. Slide the sock to the end of your strands

8. Wrap each of the strands around the sock one on each side. *My first try I was LAZY and didn't tuck the ends nicely and had great curls with kinks at the end.*

9. Once you have the ends nicely tucked roll it down to your scalp.

 

10. Put on cat eye glasses and a tight button up shirt and treat your man to the sexy librarian look, or drink a couple glasses of wine alone ... then go to sleep.
11. Wake up, unroll, meow
I read that chicks in the military do this.
It's VERY comfortable (the lump is soft and on the top of your head).

I'll edit this tomorrow AM with pics... when I have make up on, and then I'll crop out my face anyway.

*And here it is... it's really hard taking a picture of the back of your head.  I think I may have TRex arms.

Here's the video I watched to learn this trick: How to curl your hair with a sock! No heat

Day 48: How Tall

The project was to make something tall that can stand on it's own. I was having trouble thinking of anything that would be interesting for others to view and could be made from items I already own... not for lack of creativity but more because I thought the idea was boring and I didn't put much thought into it.

So instead here is a thread of my friends and I wasting an hour coming up with mocking DJ names for my brother:

Mike: DJ crawlspace.
Felix: DJ Desperation

Mike: DJ restraining order

Felix: Sir Stalks a lot

Ryan: DJimhumdawg

Felix: Gay-Z
Ranae: Mix Master Bate
Mike: HUM DMC
Felix: Alone Thugs and Harmony

Felix: Dr. Gay and Poop Dogg

Mike: NWGAY

Felix: nicecube

Mike: brotha sits home

Felix: pleasey-e
Ranae: KRS-None
Felix: Jam Master Gay
Felix: Mannibus
Felix: lifeless HIll
Felix: Feminem
Ranae: 2sad
Ranae: Nice Dude (ice cube)
Felix: Ja Fool

Felix: Jizz-a

Ranae: Talib Crying

Ranae: De La Sad

Mike: no hang clan

Felix: inane clown posse
Ranae: Public Frenemy - topical and hip
Mike: house of lame

Felix: gross-def

Felix: nifty cent

Felix: Cryclef jean

Felix: Neverlast

Felix: Hid Rock

Ranae: no-social-skills by nature

Ranae: Salt n Peder
Felix: borin' G

Ranae: Muff Saddy

Ranae: Fool & the Lame

*Check comments for additional names*

Day 47: Flower Power

Create something using flowers (real or fake). I'm trying to use things I have around the house, so I made animal plant holders and magazine flowers.
My cat eats ALL of my plants and killed off half of this bowl of plants so I added these toy animals.
I stole this idea from Plaid Pigeon, who's designs look amazing compared to my crap but that's acceptable.
I bought the toys from Rite Aid and used my Dremel to make a hole.  Luckily the toys were hollow which saved a lot of trouble.

I also decided I needed to make something with flowers since it was in the title of the project so I found this cool design (which again, I stole) and even found an instructional video.
Here's my version:

Day 46: Face Fun

Create something using your face.  I decided to demonstrate the method I used for my Medusa make-up this Halloween.
You need:

• Fishnets or a net bag (I used a plastic net bag that held cherry tomatoes).
• Cut out a section of the net and attach it to a "frame".  Take four pieces of cardboard, popsicle sticks, whatever.  The goal here is to stretch out the net.  If you skip this step you will be trying to hold the net in place and stretch it out at the same time without moving.  I was lazy and didn't do that for this pic and it shows.
• Various shades of green make-up... I would use a yellow and a purple to help highlight/contour.
• Eyeshadow applicator

Here's a pic of my eye (thrown together as an example)

*smaller shapes using the cherry tomato bag - I like the fishnet affect better.

Instructions:

1. I suggest using a lid primer, then apply a very light shade of green, white, or yellow across the lid and scoop it around to a bit of your cheekbone.
2. Set out all of the darker colors have them open and easy to access.
3. Hold the net up to your lid.  Dip the sponge eyeshadow applicator into a green and tap tap tap all over.
4. Try not to move the net and keep covering till the green is dark.
5. Now if you'd like use the purple and tap a winged out shape along the crease of your eye and tap yellow under the arch of your eyebrow.
6. Pick up the net and bring the shape out onto the cheekbone and into the hair line.  I used mostly purple close to the hair line and took the shadow right onto the hair
7. I also suggest the Eddie Munster V on the forehead going into the hair line.

If you have creases on your forehead I highly suggest keeping the forehead V very close to the hairline and to avoid shiny shadow.  I looked ten years older and had to redo mine.
Also, purchase that make-up freeze spray.  I'll update this if I can find the name, it may be called a make-up sealant spray.
Here's a picture of me making a gnarly face from Halloween

*created using fishnets - looks more snake like